jive
- colloquial adj.
- absurdity n.
- cheat n.
- conversation n.
- dance n.
- deception n.
- defense n.
- distortion n.
- evasion n.
- excuse n.
- fabrication n.
- flattery n.
- guile n.
- jazz n.
- jest n.
- lip service n.
- malarky n.
- nonsense n.
- patter n.
- piffle n.
- poppycock n.
- rigmarole n.
- sham n.
- song and dance n.
- spiel n.
- talk n.
- tommyrot n.
- twaddle n.
- victimization n.
- banter v.
- bluff v.
- boast v.
- brag v.
- defraud v.
- delude v.
- equivocate v.
- fabricate v.
- fib v.
- fool v.
- hedge v.
- jest v.
- joke v.
- josh v.
- pretend v.
- prevaricate v.
- ridicule v.
- satirize v.
- tease v.
- trick v.
- twit v.
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Cantrell says he’s experimenting with “vibe coding External link,” which I hear a lot, and sometimes mistakenly call jive coding, which works, too.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Back in the actual 1990s, ice dancers cycled through traditional dances: samba, blues, polka, rumba, quickstep, tango, jive, paso doble, Viennese waltz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
In the same compilation, Carson explained that a jive is difficult for a first dance and praised Irwin’s positivity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
But the couple still enjoy dancing, and have worked together to choreograph a new jive routine inspired by dogs, capturing their spirit at their favourite time of day - dinner time.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
All that jive doesn’t jibe with Senator Paine’s record.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
He had been a singles skater but turning jumps into jives is not an overnight job.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
Standard time, the group argues, better jives with the movement of the sun and the circadian rhythm, or body clock, of human beings.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
By checking in on irrigation systems and soil wetness, especially during the early transplant/growing days, you'll work out a routine that jives for your specific plan.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2022
Not everyone in the cast jives with this rhythm; Pritchett’s full-toned bass stumbles through the tempo.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
So now my jives are off: pray Heaven he be here!
From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant by Francis Beaumont
Everything is flat and framed in medium shots, missing the dark cityscape aesthetic of the first film, which jived with the ethos of modern mythology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
His leadership style and his approach to things haven’t always jived with manager Scott Servais.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
If someone came to me and was like, you could do this cool thing for Netflix or whatever and it really jived with my life, I would do it, but I don’t know.
From The Verge ● Aug. 24, 2021
But even as costumed fans shimmied, jived and reminisced, the talk was of an uncertain future.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2020
He juked and jived and spun and danced and darted, and he left them squeezing handfuls of air.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
"She used to love dancing. You'd put Elvis on and she'd be up jiving and dancing in the living room - now she still taps her foot," said Helen.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2024
In Tenebaum’s hands he’s a mix of James Brown, Little Richard and the jiving genie in “Aladdin.”
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2017
The young guard Irving can call to mind a young Earl Monroe, a nervous breakdown collection of jiving sidesteps and spins and jukes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2016
The dead were dancing, jiving when Biggar gave them lead with a penalty from halfway after Brown had held on after a tackle.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2015
She winds her way through to me as the band pipes up with a fresh jiving number.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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